Let's Review our Blogs
Blogging is Collaboration
Blogs are online journals (weblogs). These are easily updated webpages that allow users to post content and get feedback via audience comments. While Facebook most easily comes to mind, blogging platforms like Blogger and Wordpress also offer users various options (called widgets) to share the world with their readers. Teacher blogs (like journals and course management sites) and student blogs (perhaps for writing reflection) are limited only by the imagination of the authors.
Blogging is a two way communicative process. Bloggers not only write blogs, they read blogs, they comment on blogs, and truly participate in a community of ideas. In order for you to be successful in this course, it is important that you actively engage with your classmates' blogs. As the ability to provide feedback, both verbal and written, is an important competency for successful teaching, you should practice this skill during the term.
Blogs are online journals (weblogs). These are easily updated webpages that allow users to post content and get feedback via audience comments. While Facebook most easily comes to mind, blogging platforms like Blogger and Wordpress also offer users various options (called widgets) to share the world with their readers. Teacher blogs (like journals and course management sites) and student blogs (perhaps for writing reflection) are limited only by the imagination of the authors.
Blogging is a two way communicative process. Bloggers not only write blogs, they read blogs, they comment on blogs, and truly participate in a community of ideas. In order for you to be successful in this course, it is important that you actively engage with your classmates' blogs. As the ability to provide feedback, both verbal and written, is an important competency for successful teaching, you should practice this skill during the term.
Compose a Blog Posting
1. Open your Wordpress blog.
2. Following the instructions presented in class, compose a short private posting on your blog.
3. Using the Wordpress Reader function, collect 3 URLs from your classmate blogs to follow this term. Think about who you will follow, as this forms your classroom community. Think about including common interests, content levels, or original thinkers. Perhaps you could include blogs you can model and imitate (with proper credit, of course). Finally, think about including blogs from writers who challenge your assumptions.
4. Find two blogs (from outside of your class) that corresponds with your interests and post links to them. You may wish to use the sample blogs at the bottom of the Class Blogs tab. Briefly discuss why you selected these blogs. What useful information do they contain?
1. Open your Wordpress blog.
2. Following the instructions presented in class, compose a short private posting on your blog.
3. Using the Wordpress Reader function, collect 3 URLs from your classmate blogs to follow this term. Think about who you will follow, as this forms your classroom community. Think about including common interests, content levels, or original thinkers. Perhaps you could include blogs you can model and imitate (with proper credit, of course). Finally, think about including blogs from writers who challenge your assumptions.
4. Find two blogs (from outside of your class) that corresponds with your interests and post links to them. You may wish to use the sample blogs at the bottom of the Class Blogs tab. Briefly discuss why you selected these blogs. What useful information do they contain?